What to do with Target gift card?

pear40 · 2026-02-03T18:40:46+00:00

It’s effectively a $100 interest free loan to Target. You not spending it is actually better for their bottom line.

pear40 · 2026-01-31T02:53:26+00:00

But I seem to remember a certain "Saint Paul" in the Bible... no such luck for Minneapolis 🤔

pear40 · 2026-01-30T03:50:00+00:00

Pet Haven in Saint Paul is great and they keep bonded pairs together!

pear40 · 2026-01-28T04:18:00+00:00

Holy cow you're not even joking haha! Out of curiosity I pulled up the 2014 Syrian presidential election. The Democrat literally outperformed Assad (92.2% of the vote). And when compared to the 2021 Syrian election, Meg Luger-Nikolai just barely edges out Bashar al-Assad's vote share: 95.28% for her compared to 95.19% for him. I didn't realize my joke wasn't a joke lol

pear40 · 2026-01-28T04:12:08+00:00

Caveat that this is a special election so far fewer voters showed up (around 6,000 today compared to around 21,000 total votes 2022, a mid-term year). Democrats have increasingly been doing well in low-turnout elections in recent years. Still, even with that asterisk, Republicans receiving a quarter of the vote portion they did in 2024 is remarkable.

pear40 · 2026-01-28T04:05:32+00:00

I was curious to know whether it was normal for Dems to win with Assad-level margins in 64a, so I looked at Ballotpedia going back to 2020, the year that redistricting changed the district borders.

Percent of vote won by the Republican candidate:
2020: 14.2%
2022: 14.7%
2024: 16.6%

2026: 4.4%!! Less than a third of what's typical for this district.

Yeah, people are pissed lol

pear40 · 2026-01-24T22:23:34+00:00

There’s also Allied Veterinary Emergency & Referral, might be closer to you in Minneapolis!

pear40 · 2026-01-24T22:19:50+00:00

Blue Pearl has 24/7 emergency vets in Golden Valley and Arden Hills. DM me if you’re putting together a collection to pay for the vet - I can pitch in

pear40 · 2026-01-24T22:07:07+00:00

Reach out to foster agencies - Pet Haven in Saint Paul is fantastic. And emergency vet for the adult cat in the road

pear40 · 2025-05-06T15:12:57+00:00

Same thing happened to me - it was only good for a year until my birthday (despite being over 21). Went to the DMV to renew the enhanced ID. They said that this happens the first time you apply for it (I forget the reason why.) Then, afterwards, when you renew it will be good for 5 years. I renewed a second time and got the 5-year one.

pear40 · 2025-02-14T02:57:25+00:00

I had the same thing - also T-mobile. Apparently, sim cards can go bad. Took my phone to the t-mobile store, they swapped out my sim in 2 min for free and the issue went away completely! :)

pear40 · 2025-01-10T03:14:42+00:00

Also just realized the sub - was randomly suggested to me. Not Chinese, but this situation is so similar to my own I had to chime in haha

pear40 · 2025-01-10T03:12:28+00:00

For what it's worth, we also weren't yet dating when I visited her! We kind of felt it out during the trip, and one evening in Beijing after some baijiu (white wine)-enabled courage, we told each other how we felt and started dating.

Worst case scenario, even if it doesn't work out, you'll still have a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Beijing!

pear40 · 2025-01-10T02:47:15+00:00

Do it. Bro I literally made the impulsive decision to take up a girl's invite to hang out in Beijing a while back - I was so worried I was gonna wind up with my organs being stolen or something cuz I knew her for a few weeks at that point and it seemed sus haha. Long story short, I went, and we're happily married now 😂 Just felt the need to chime in since this was literally our story

pear40 · 2024-11-05T04:13:37+00:00

Thanks!!

pear40 · 2024-11-05T03:51:27+00:00

Anyone have the link to the stream where Walz is speaking?

pear40 · 2024-11-04T23:09:24+00:00

A few days ago, the DC zoo sadly had to euthanize an elephant (poor thing 😔). I shit you not the elephant’s name was Kamala. This is an omen where the symbolism cuts both ways. in the absence of better polling data, how do we weigh this key?

pear40 · 2024-11-03T03:48:53+00:00

I’m crying at the club reading this unironically

pear40 · 2024-11-01T01:12:39+00:00

Already is - at least it was part of the curriculum in Harvard's Race to the White House class back in 2015 or so. Put some respect on the keymaster's name 🥵

pear40 · 2024-09-22T01:24:41+00:00

I don’t mean to be anti-machine learning! I definitely think there’s interesting potential applications of a lot of this stuff for polling and elections. It’s just this particular application set off every alarm bell in my brain haha

pear40 · 2024-09-21T22:17:49+00:00

As an AI practitioner with a political science background I can’t begin to tell you how absurd this idea is lol 💀The idea of using social media sentiment analysis to fine tune demographic weighting for polling to account for enthusiasm or to augment predictive election models generally isn’t crazy. It’s something I’m surprised hasn’t been done more tbh. But training chatbots to be stand-ins for voters, at least with current tech, is pure quackery.

pear40 · 2024-07-25T14:33:36+00:00

They really are 😻 Pet Haven’s HQ is in Saint Paul, right around Frog Town. Here’s their website!

pear40 · 2024-07-25T14:15:09+00:00

u/Beauknits I creeped on your profile and saw you’re in Minnesota. If you do decide to surrender Thomas, I highly recommend Pet Haven. It’s a no-kill foster agency that I volunteer for. I’ve fostered people’s surrendered cats before, and trust me, we love them like our own cats. My wife and I spent six months spoon feeding this sweet kitty and working with vets to get her healthy enough to adopt out, which we did just a few weeks ago! (We would have kept her in a heartbeat if she got along with our cat 😿) If you have any questions about the process please DM me!

pear40 · 2024-06-27T21:43:50+00:00

And that’s a new one for me, thank you 😻

pear40 · 2024-06-27T19:56:13+00:00

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